Quotes About Quietness

La, tout n'est qu'ordre et beauté Luxe, calme et volupté There, there is nothing else but grace and measure, Richness, quietness, and pleasure.

Mindfulness gives you the inner space and quietness that allow you to look deeply, to find out who you are and what you want to do with your life. You won't feel the need to make yourself run after meaningless

A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one more gregarious; his thoughts are weightier, stranger, and never without a tinge of sadness. Images and perceptions that others might shrug off with a glance, a laugh, or a brief conversation occupy him unduly, become profound in his silence, become significant, become experience, adventure, emotion.

The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, assumes personal responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief boring and keeps out of it. Without this hidden conspiracy of good will, society would not endure an hour.

I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.

Our silence is a black cavern.

En el fondo, seguía siendo, y siempre sería, una niña tímida que sólo se sentía a gusto en una soledad montaraz.

In this connection I must mention too a not altogether rational idea which I had nourished more or less vaguely for a long time: the notion that before I could achieve greatness as a writer I would have to pass through some ordeal . For this ordeal I had waited in vain. Even total war (I was never in uniform) failed to ruffle my life. I seemed doomed to quietness.

Settle down! she thought. Yes, settle down into dreariness and quietness and forgetfulness and boredom.

Courage is a quietness, not martial music made Born of facing up to life, even when afraid.

I tend to be a bit of a hermit. A bit monkish. I like to tune out the context.

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

When I leave here, when my final day on this earth is up, I want to leave in peace. I want to have peace in my heart.

In no way do I want to draw attention to myself.

my typewriter is tombstone still. and I am reduced to bird watching.

And there's nobody there. But

If you walk along the main street on an August afternoon there is nothing whatsoever to do.

Dead rats don't squeak.

When we really want to hear, and be heard by, someone we love, we do not go rushing into noisy crowds. Silence is a form of intimacy. That's how we experience it with our friends and lovers. As relationships grow deeper and more intimate, we spend more and more quiet time alone with our lover. We talk in low tones about the things that matter. We do not shout them to each other. We may shout about them to others, but quietness is the hallmark of love.

Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.

In solitude, where we are least alone.

There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.

Then marriage may be said to be past in all quietnesse, when the wife is blind, and the husband deafe.

All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.